Improvement in violins



JOSEPH eiRANDJoN,

errants, FRANCE.

Leiters Patent No. 100,284, dated March 1, 1870.

IMPROVEMENT IN vIoLnsL The Schedule referred to in then Letters Patent and making put of the game To all to whom fit muy concern Be it known that I, JOSEPH GRANDJON, of Paris, in the Empire of France, have invented a new and improved Mode of Constructing Violins and Bows, to facilitate their package in traveling; and I do hereby declare thattlie followingis a full and exact description thereof', reference being had to the accompanying dran-'ings and vto the letters of reference marked thereon.

The nature of my invention consists in constructing the' body of the instrument' of an oblong form, and making the linger-board capable of detachment therefrom.' The bow is also divided iu two parts, so that the whole may readily be packed in its case, which, from the peculiar shape of the violin, occupies less room than those of the ordinary form.

. The accompanying drawings,vwhich are half the real size, will at once show the system.

Figure 1 is a plan of the violin complete. Figure 2, the same minus the finger-board, a side view of which is shown in Figure 3.

These two parts are fitted together by inserting the projecting piece B xed to the inger-board into the aperture B of the bracket A, attached to the body of the' violin. When these are in situ and the strings put on, the two parts are rmly connected, and the tone of the instrument is in no wayixnpaired.

The bow, shown in part Figure 4, is made to divide,l by aid of the peg K and socket M.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The oblong form of the violin, the mode of rendering the finger-board and the body of the instrument capable ot' separation and readjustnient, by aid of the projection B, bracket A, and aperture B.

Also, the division of the bow by means of the peg K and socket M, such improvements being intended to facilitate package in traveling or transport.

JOSEPH GRANDJON.

YVitnesses:

F. KEETING, F. OLco'r'r. 

